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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY kansan Serving KU for 76 of its 100 Years
76th Year, No. 85
WEATHER WARMER
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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Wednesday, February 23, 1966
SOLD OUT—Kathy Melcher and Kip Niven enact a scene from the play "Two for the Seesaw" now playing at the University Experimental Theatre. Standing room only is left for the remaining performances Thursday, Friday, and Saturday night.
Marines send Cong scurrying
SAIGON — (UPI)— Two companies of hard-core Viet Cong tried for the first time today to stand up and slug it out with U.S. Marines in Operation Double Eagle along the South China Sea coast. The Marines killed an estimated 46 before the guerrillas broke off the fight and fled.
About 60 miles to the south, near Bong Son, units of the 1st U.S. Cavalry Division overran a Viet Cong stronghold and then engaged in heavy fighting with guerrilla forces trying to escape through the heavy jungle.
GROUND FIRE was so severe it downed two helicopters, and a third crashed because of engine failure.
The widely separated actions against the Viet Cong involved the 1st Infantry Division, taking part in Operation Mastiff about 31 miles northwest of Saigon, and the 1st Air Cavalry, engaged in Operation White Wing-Masher about 300 miles northeast of the capital.
A U.S. military spokesman said the infantrymen seized an abandoned Viet Cong regimental base camp after heavy shelling and air attacks in an area thick with underbrush and dotted with rubber plantations north of Saigon.
THE CAVALRY troops captured a Viet Cong stronghold near Bong Son far to the northeast after four days of ground assaults and air and artillery barrages. The Communists apparently had retreated into nearby jungle in both regions.
Vietnamese troops reported killing 100 Viet Cong in a two-
day battle south of the 1st Air Cavalry action along north-south Highway 1. The government forces were aided by offshore shelling from the 7th Fleet cruiser USS Topeka and air strikes by two C47's.
In the air war, American planes continued to attack coastal targets in North Viet Nam while other aircraft ranged inland to the Dien Bien Phu barracks and airfield complex 145 miles northwest of Hanoi. The region has been bombed almost daily for the past week.
A U.S. SPOKESMAN revealed that American planes had dropped 5.8 million propaganda leaflets over the Red River delta rice bowl of North Viet Nam since Sunday.
B52 bombers from Guam today raided a Viet Cong supply area in Thua Thien Province about 400 miles north of Saigon.
The leaflets explain why U.S. air strikes were resumed Feb 1.
Labor petition finds support from ASC
By Jack Harrington
A resolution that the All Student Council endorse the petition of the Student Labor Organization (SLO) to the State Board of Regents was debated and tabled at the ASC meeting last night.
The SLO petition asks for a higher student wage allocation in the KU budget.
The resolution, submitted by Tom Rader, Greensburg sophomore (Vox—fraternity), and Dick Darville, Shawnee Mission junior (Vox—large men's), called for the council's "full support and endorsement" of the petition, and for letters of appreciation to be sent to Provost James R. Surface and Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe for their cooperation in opening the channels for delivery of the petition.
THE MOTION WAS tabled for one week on the suggestion of Kay Orth, El Dorado junior (UP —sorority), who said an explanation of the petition by SLO leaders to the ASC was in order for the benefit of the council members.
Clearing some misunderstanding among the council members, Bill Robinson, Great Bend junior (Vox—Student Body Vice-president), explained that the petition was for the increase of student wage allocations in future Board of Regents' budgets which are submitted to the state legislature.
HUMPHREY SON APPLIES HERE
He said a $50,000 proposed increase for this year, as recommended by the Regents, was cut by the legislature, and that the petition supports continued requests for the money.
An application for admission to KU by Douglas Humphrey, son of Vice-President Hubert H. Humphrey, was received by the office of the registrar last week, William Kelly, associate director of admissions, said to-day.
"We are now waiting for his school transcript and personal evaluation form for processing." James K. Hitt, registrar, said.
Humphrey, of Waverly. Minn., currently attends Shattuck School in Faribault, Minn. He visited KU earlier this year as a guest of the Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity.
RADER AND Darville clarified the wording of the resolution by saying the allocation should be an increase of the present one and should not decrease any other allocation within the budget.
Rader said he would ask SLO officers to attend the next ASC meeting on Tuesday, March 1, to answer questions about the petition. He suggested that council members inform themselves on the issue during the week.
In other legislation, a resolution was introduced by Jeff Irving, Leonia, N.J., graduate student (Vox—graduate school), and chairman of the Human Rights
Committee, asking the ASC to support the Fair Housing Campaign of the Greater Kansas City Council on Religion and Race.
A final resolution, introduced by Bruce Warren, Emporia junior (UP—fraternity), was passed by the ASC expressing its thanks to the blood donors who responded to the Red Cross blood drive Feb. 14-16.
Bill Reese, Hiawatha secondyear law student (UP-unmarried-unorganized), moved to
THE RESOLUTION also called for support of the recruitment of volunteers on campus for the cause by student organizations dealing with human rights. The measure was adopted by the council.
To survey rights
DARVILLE SAID that there is no specific set of codified regulations, but that they are found in the Student Handbook and other publications.
GIVE SHOTS
- Regulations allowing a student to be suspended when charged with (but not convicted of) a felony, which violates the basic principles of due process of law.
The wording of the resolution terms such rules "vague and subject to arbitrary interpretation," and cites two examples:
Introduced by Dick Darville, Shawnee Mission junior (Vox large men's), and Tem Rader, Greensburg sophomore (Vox fraternity), the measure called for a special committee to "gather and examine all university regulations relating to student behavior" for the purpose of forming a "comprehensive philosophy" of student rights and obligations.
THE RESOLUTION directs this committee to report its findings to the ASC and to the administration, with suggestions for needed changes.
- Restrictions on consumption of alcoholic beverages in private residences by students of legal age, compromising the student's right to manage his personal life, and
University regulations which infringe upon students' rights was the subject of a resolution adopted by the All Student Council last night.
amend the resolution to produce a "comprehensive written code" instead of "philosophy" of student rights, but Rader and Darville explained that the committee was not to write a bill of student rights, but to find out what regulations should be.
The measure passed without the amendment.
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Students can voice gripes on council
An all-student "gripe" session will be held at 7:30 p.m. in the Jayhawk Room of the Kansas Union preceding the hearings of the Committee Evaluation Board (CEB) of the All Student Council, Tom Rader, Greensburg sophomore (Vox—fraternity), and chairman of the CEB, said last night in the ASC meeting.
Rader said that the CEB has done extensive research into the workings of the ASC executive committees, and will hear reports from the committee chairmen beginning tomorrow. He said that the findings of the evaluation will be used to update the committee system and to promote effectiveness of each committee.
Hospital says Hill flu free
"We hope that through more effective committees, which carry out the basic workings of the legislation, we can take a big step toward a student government that really governs."
By Elizabeth Rhodes No positive cases of Asian influenza have been reported at KU, Dr. Raymond Schwegler, acting director of Watkins hospital, said yesterday.
By Elizabeth Rhodes
See FLU SHOTS on Page 10
However, not wanting to take any chances, approximately 800 students lined up in Strong and Ellsworth Halls to receive inoc-
ulations against the possible Asian influenza epidemic. The virus has infected 400,000 in the Los Angeles area.
FREE INOCULATIONS were
Although there are no known cases in Lawrence, Dr. Schwegler emphasized the importance of the
Some students approached the inoculation tables with tense faces. Others came in pairs laughing and joking. Still others, their arms pinioned behind them, were "volunteered" by friends.
repeated again this morning in Strong Hall, and may be continued at that location for two or three days. The shots are always available at Watkins, said Dr. Schwegler.
He said the biggest problem in student government is acquainting the student with it and getting his opinion. The "gripe" session tonight is expected to produce general student comment and questions on the executive committees. Rader urged all students who can to attend.
"We WANT student opinion," Rader said. "No one ever comes directly to us with questions about student government. We've got to know what they're thinking in order to represent them."
The first hearings will be Thursday at 7 p.m. in the Pine Room of the Kansas Union.